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Hello and welcome to the edition podcast from The Spectator.

Every week we take a look at some of the most important and intriguing stories from the issue with the writers behind them.

I'm Lara Prendergars, the Spectator's executive editor.

This week, who is Eric Zamore and can he take on President Macron?

Plus, is the prevent anti-radicalisation programme failing?

And finally, what's it like to die naked?

First up, in our cover story this week, Freddie Gray looks at the rise of Eric Zamor,

the TV personality who looks set to stir up French politics ahead of

next year's election. I'm joined now by Freddie and Sophie Pedder, who's the economist Paris Bureau

Chief and a biographer of Emmanuel Macron. Sophie, you're joining us from Paris. For listeners who

might not have heard of Eric Zamor, could you start by explaining who he is and where he's come from?

Well, he's a well-known television personality, really. He's seen as a journalist, primarily

in an author. He's written a number of books over the years. He's very well-known in France,

but he's also seen as a provocateur. I mean, he occupies a kind of that space on the, in the media landscape where he's

always the one who says the most provocative thing. And when you watch him on a TV talk shows,

when you see him taking part in debates, that is this is the brand he's been building. So I think,

you know, no one up until now has really seen him as a politician at all. And I don't think

even today he's quite seen in that, in that way. But he certainly has a brand. And it is a brand that

situates him, I would say, politically, you know, in some ways to the even further right than

Marine Le Pen.

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